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An increase in Disney+ subscriptions and reopening parks resulted in an upside surprise for Disney''s (DIS) first quarter results.

As Facebook (NASDAQ: FB ) reportedly prepares to rebrand itself with a new name, speculation is percolating across the Internet on what Mark Zuckerberg will choose as the future moniker for his social media empire. One might assume that Zuckerberg is being very serious and deliberate in renaming his company. After all, sometimes a company’s name can create confusion, outrage or guilty pleasure. Here are 10 company names that generate attention for all the wrong reasons. Big Dick''s Halfway Inn: Yeah, subtlety was in short supply when this Missouri-based bar, grill and gift shop was named. The establishment, located along the Lake of the Ozarks, prides itself as the “Home of the Minnow Shot,” whatever that is. Frying Nemo: Here is one eatery that you will not find at a Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS ) theme park. This English fish and chips restaurant clearly had a better ending for the 2003 animated film, with a liberal sprinkling of dark malt vinegar and a side of musky peas to create a truly scrumptious piscine meal.

The shares of all 30 components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained ground in afternoon trading Friday, as the blue chip barometer surged toward its biggest gain in 21 months. Of the Dow''s best percentage performers, shares of both Johnson & Johnson and 3M Co. shot up 5.5%. 3M''s stock is now on track to snap a 10-session losing streak, which is its longest losing streak in 10 years. UnitedHealth Group Inc.''s stock was biggest price gainer, and therefore provided the biggest point boost for the Dow. The health insurer''s stock rose $18.97, or 4.2%, to add about 125 points to the Dow''s price. The weakest perform was Walt Disney Co.''s stock , which rose just 0.1%. The Dow ran up 844 points, or 2.5%, as it headed for the biggest point gain since it soared 912 points on May 18, 2020. The Dow has now bounced 1,795 points, or 5.6%, off Thursday''s intraday low of 32,272.64. Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.

Apple (AAPL +1%) and Amazon.com (AMZN +1%) have become front-runners to acquire the prized NFL Sunday Ticket out-of-market football broadcast package - acing out ESPN and Disney (DIS)…

DLA Piper''s U.S. co-managing partner Jackie Park has an array of clients in the real estate space, including ongoing representation of The Walt Disney Company, Capitol Records and AECOM.

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Chevron Corp.''s stock is the only Dow Jones Industrial Average component gaining ground in premarket trading Thursday, as Dow futures tumbled in the wake of Russia''s invasion Ukraine, while the other 29 components are falling by at least 1% and as much as 4.4%. Chevron''s stock jumped 4.2% ahead of the open, putting them on track to open in record territory, as crude oil futures shot up 8.4%. Among the biggest Dow decliners, shares of travel-related companies American Express Co. shed 4.4%, Walt Disney Co. dropped 4.2% and Visa Inc. slid 4.1%. Meanwhile, Dow futures sank 806 points, or 2.4%. Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news.

Two influential proxy advisory firms have reversed course and are backing Walt Disney''s (DIS) executive pay plan, while one is sticking with opposition, two weeks ahead of…

The Walt Disney Co''s (NYSE: DIS ) Walt Disney World Resort boosted the ticket prices for guests visiting the parks for multiple days, CNBC reports . Disney raised the prices of multiday passes for between four and ten days by 2% Full story available on Benzinga.com

Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA ) CEO Elon Musk posted a meme on Twitter, suggesting users are once again flirting piracy software in response to the onerous nature of streaming websites. What Happened: Musk tweeted Monday that entertainment is becoming a username/password/2FA nightmare. The Tesla CEO shared a meme featuring a person being enamored by Netflix Inc (NASDAQ: NFLX ), whilst being in the company of The Pirate Bay. However, as streaming apps multiplied with the coming of Walt Disney Cos (NYSE: DIS ) Disney+, Amazon.com, Incs (NASDAQ: AMZN ) Prime and others, the person once again gravitates Full story available on Benzinga.com

Fans of Game of Thrones are eagerly awaiting a new prequel series, and also have high hopes that author George R.R. Martin will publish more novels. Fans awaiting more books may be in for disappointment with Martin announcing a new project. What Happened: A superhero anthology written by George R.R. Martin called Wild Cards is getting a comic book adaptation via Marvel Comics, the publishing arm owned by The Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS ). The series is made up of stories written by Harold Waldrop, Roger Zelazny and Martin. The complete anthology was featured across 25 novels, 20 short stories and featured the contributions of over 40 authors across three decades dating back to 1987. The Wild Cards series tells the story of an alternate history where Earth is home to super-power individuals. When a human is infected with the alien Wild Card virus, the odds are that they will be killedwhich is referred to as Full story available on Benzinga.com

In the first major price increase since before the pandemic, Walt Disney World (DIS) is officially raising its prices for multi-day and Park Hopper tickets (which allow visitors to

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Seventy-five years ago, Alex Anderson and Jay Ward collaborated to form Television Arts Productions , a company with the unique goal of creating original animated series for the nascent television medium. While it took a few years before their work reached the airwaves, Anderson and Ward were responsible for launching what would become one of the most lucrative sectors in the entertainment industry. In view of the 75th anniversary of the Anderson-Ward partnership, and with a shout out to Berkeley Breathed for becoming the latest entry to the sector with a Fox (NASDAQ: FOX ) development deal on his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic strip Bloom County, here is Benzingas celebration of the 10 most groundbreaking animated TV series of all time. 1. Crusader Rabbit: The initial Anderson-Ward concept, The Comic Strips of Television, consisted of three segments: a Sherlock Holmes parody featuring inept detective Hamhock Bones, a riff on the Canadian Mountie melodramas starring Dudley Do-Right, and an adventure serial with a diminutive hero called Crusader Rabbit.

Amazon''s rivalry in India with oil-to-retail conglomerate Reliance Industries looks set to head to the cricket field, where they will likely battle media heavyweights for telecast rights to India''s premier cricket league with its hundreds of millions of viewers. Amazon.com Inc and Reliance Industries Ltd are expected to take on India units of Sony Group Corp and Walt Disney Co for exclusive five-year TV and digital broadcast rights to the two-month series of matches, at a cost that could run to a record 500 billion rupees ($6.7 billion), sources familiar with the companies'' plans said. "Cricket is the second-biggest sport in the world with two-and-a-half billion fans and IPL is like its Super Bowl," said Anton Rublievskyi, head of Parimatch, a betting company that advertised at the Indian Premier League (IPL) last year. "If you''re not there, you do not exist." Disney-owned Star India, which is one of the top broadcasters in India along with Sony and its planned acquisition Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd, paid 163.48 billion rupees for the digital and television rights until 2022.